Peripheralization: Theoretical Concepts Explaining Socio-Spatial Inequalities

Kühn, Manfred

doi:10.1080/09654313.2013.862518

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“…Instead, complex economic-socialdemographic dilemmas shape the future of regional economic development in these cases, implying persistent, and mutually self-reinforcing, processes of social and economic marginalization, spatial, political and discursive peripheralization (Copus, 2001;Kühn, 2013;Kühn & Bernt, 2013;Lang, 2015), and even stigmatization (Meyer, Miggelbrink, & Schwarzenberg, 2016).…”

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Leick

Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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Periods of ongoing growth in the economy and demographics have come to a halt for many European regions for various reasons, challenging their economic development prospects. Despite the heterogeneous nature of stagnation, decline, peripheralization or even stigmatization to be found there, these configurations 'beyond growth' have in common that short-term 'fire-fighting' policy approaches aiming to foster regional economic growth face some important limitations. We argue that this has to do, among other things, with the overall direction of established and orthodox planning approaches that are predominantly based on growth-oriented paradigms and implicitly or explicitly work with dichotomous categories such as core-periphery and metropolitan versus non-metropolitan spaces; these do, however, not capture local realities in these cases. Using the notion of non-core regions, we plead for conceptualizing non-core regions and their regional economic development trajectories in different ways: thinking 'beyond growth'. Such alternative ideas should be informed by alternative understandings of growth, development and sustainability in order to influence theories and concepts, but also to support new approaches to planning practice. To this aim, we discuss non-core regions from a social constructivist perspective, elaborating some points of departure for conceptualizing and practising regional planning 'beyond growth'.

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Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

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Lang

2017

European Planning Studies

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“…sociálního vyloučení [Kühn 2015]. Perspektiva "koncentrovaného znevýhodnění", využitá explicitně i v české analýze vnitřních periferií [Musil, Müller 2008a], přitom není zcela oddělena od pojetí periferií jako nejslab-ší části ekonomicky polarizovaného území.…”

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Inner Peripheries in the Czech Republic: The Multidimensional Nature of Social Exclusion in Rural Areas

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Šimon²

2017

Czech Sociological Review

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Abstract:The spatial concentration of social disadvantage in rural areas not only poses a risk to social cohesion but also represents a challenge for public policy. This article draws on a multidimensional concept of disadvantage to study spatial aspects of disadvantage in Czech rural areas. Current studies aimed at identifying 'inner peripheries' as areas with an increased risk of social exclusion fail to distinguish between different forms of disadvantage. Their methodological approach blends regions struggling with various problems into one category. Contesting the one-dimensionality of peripheries, this article presents an alternative approach that allows the delimitation of multiple types of peripheral areas based on four separate dimensions of disadvantage. It is possible then to distinguish: peripheries characterised by low qualifi cations, lower living standards, and the absence of a middle class; peripheries with an increased risk of social exclusion; peripheries with poor accessibility; and peripheries facing demographic challenges. Differences in the spatial patterns of the four types of peripheries indicate that different sociospatial processes contribute to the emergence of different types of peripheries and this calls for varied public policy tools and measures.

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“…But collectively, after a certain threshold is reached, the actions of agents can re-shape the local structure, by influencing the sustainability of existing local economies and the prospects of new economic projects . Thus, because it is mostly the young and the skilled who have sufficient assets to become mobile, peripheries are left to also cope with the out-migration of highly educated and young people, and with demographic ageing and shrinkage (Kühn, 2015) . Ultimately, this diminishes even further the available human capital and the internal capacity of development, which leads to a vicious circle that reproduces peripherality (Massey, 1990) .…”

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Peripherialisation as a Result and Driving Force of Territorial Mobility in Post-Socialist Romania

Moldovan

2018

ESR&P

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Over the past two and a half decades, the transition from a centralised to a market economy has affected Romania’s spatial configuration by re-widening the gap between cores and peripheries at a regional scale. Through a statistical analysis carried out for the North-West Region (NUTS 2), my contribution focuses on one of the mechanisms interrelated with peripheralisation, namely territorial mobility. The aim is twofold. First, to show how increasing core-periphery disparities impact mobility flows by offering different levels of structural (dis)advantages. Second, to exemplify how various social groups can influence these (dis)advantages by choosing their place of residence and work.

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Peripheralization: Theoretical Concepts Explaining Socio-Spatial Inequalities

Cited by 329 publications

References 8 publications

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Re-thinking non-core regions: planning strategies and practices beyond growth

Inner Peripheries in the Czech Republic: The Multidimensional Nature of Social Exclusion in Rural Areas

Peripherialisation as a Result and Driving Force of Territorial Mobility in Post-Socialist Romania

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